Book 2008

Torture Team

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Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2008

Prisoners of war
Torture
Human rights
War Crimes
Legal status, laws
Military interrogation
Case studies
Government policy

Offers a study of a document, signed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in December 2002, that authorized the use of eighteen controversial interrogation techniques that were used at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and set the stage for a betrayal of the Geneva Convention.